Shakti's Sacred Dance Workshops

Shakti is ecstatic to be back on Kaua'i and is offering 2 classes on ancient sacred dance in celebration of her return:

• Kundalini Dance Meditation (4:00 - 5:00 PM Sundays)
• Core Energetics: Isolations at the chakras (5:10 - 6:00 PM Sundays)

Sacred Mideastern Dance is all about geometry. We learn to isolate specific locations in the body and use them to draw patterns in the air. You can think of the center of the motion as a single point

which we learn to move in different directions.

Left to right (horizontally):	or up and down (vertically):	or front to back (undulant):

Once we have mastered moving in these directions & finding these points:

Horizontal	Vertical	Undulant:

We can start joining them into diamonds:

horizontal + vertical	horizontal + undulant	undulant + vertical
when joined together in continuous movement, these points to create a...
vertical diamond	flat diamond	undulant diamond

Which after mastering, we can smooth out into circles...

vertical circle	flat circle	undulation

It is very important to your balanced development that all motions are learned in both directions. For example, any motion learned clockwise should also be learned counter-clockwise. Very often, people discover that one direction is easier than the other. If you practice the side that is harder a tiny bit more, both ways will soon become equally easy. 

As we learn to move our body through these circles at various locations in our bodies (particularly the chakras), energetic and physical blockages must be (and are) dissolved. This is one of the core powers of the practice.

Other Mideastern & Sacred Dance Class Topics

• Class Goals & Basic Posture
• Physical Health Benefits of Mideastern dance
• Directions of Movement in Sacred Dance: Lesson 1 - Isolations & Basic Geometry
• Sacred Dance and the Chakras: Introduction
• Sacred Dance and the Chakras: Manifesto
• Tribal or Cabaret?
• Shakti's Quick-Start Guide to Henna
• Balancing Things on Your Head
• Energetic Arms